My voice assistant is no longer playing ball. It responds to “Hey google” by offering me a box in which I can type a query. This spoils my driving time because I used to be able to tell Google to play a certain song, navigate to a certain destination, or calculate the square root of pi.
Maybe it’s because I need to register my voice. That might be sensible, because I don’t want my phone jumping to attention anytime anybody says “hey google”.
There was a story some years ago (uncorroborated, but it makes the point) that had Bill Gates demonstrating voice command at some university. Gee look! You don’t have to type things into this computer any more, you can just tell it what to do.
Then smart asses in the audience start shouting out things like “format c: /q”.